While report is late 'it is here'- Hon Penn on motion against Governor
The motion, which can be regarded as historic, was moved on May 28, 2020, and seconded by Opposition Member Hon Melvin M. Turnbull (R2), where Hon Fraser blamed the Governer for the untimely arrival of the BVI Airways audit report to the House of Assembly (HoA), which was a month and one day after its statutory deadline.
Hon Fraser has a right - Opposition Leader
According to the Opposition Leader, on the heels of statements from Hon Turnbull, "I too like my colleague before me, was also unaware of what my honourable colleague to my left [Hon Fraser] intent was when he started the process of bringing a motion to this Honourable House," he said on Wednesday, June 3, 2020.
Hon Turnbull, just minutes earlier, had told the House he had blindly seconded the motion to see where it was going, noting that Hon Fraser had a right to bring it to the house.
Hon Penn told the House, "My other colleague is absolutely right, the member was within his bounds to bring the Motion, he followed the rules that have been set out in the Standing Orders... rules specific to the Constitution."
While report is late, 'it is here'- Hon Penn
The Opposition Leader; however, said while the Governor had no right to instruct the HoA to meet at a specific date, he suggested he was not in favour of reprimanding the Governor for the lateness of the report.
“The member’s motion, which is a subject of a specific topic here today, while I too agree based on the specifics, and you are hearing there were some letters going left, right and centre, back and forth, you heard the Premier’s letter and I think Mr Speaker, you read the Governor’s letter to the Honourable House, to yourself and to the members, you read it in this House, actually in the opening session, where you yourself reprimanded the Governor, that the Governor has no right to direct and has no power to direct the House, which is true, which is accurate.
"So in terms of my involvement in that fight specifically to this particular report, I believe that while it is late…it is here."
As such, Hon Penn instead used the time given to debate the motion to rant against the sitting government, complaining that the Opposition was being unfairly criticised and vowing that he would not be intimidated as a Member of the Opposition.
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Until you understand that the leader of the opposition is nothing short of a c** artist you will still be asking these sort of questions.